Main description:

the generative and resistant value of human vulnerability

the importance of vulnerability in motivating engagement with social networks and material ecologies for productive thinking, communication, and community

how relational ethics emerge as important for social and communicative life

Contents:

Preface

1. Am I Disabled?

2. Learning to be Able

3. BC/AC: Changing Identities and Communities

4. Designer Babies and Chosen Tribes: Toward a Relational Politics

5. From War Zones to Cancer Wards: A Community of Dependent Frail Bodies

6. Composing at Chemo Time: Cancer Journals as Performative Writing

7. John's Final Blogs: Anomalous Embodiment and Religious Disability Rhetoric

8. The Arbor and the Rhizome: Rethinking Language Competence

9. Weaving Texts: Scientific Communication as Anomalous Embodiment

10. "Supplement or Compensate our Weak Points": Relational Ethics in Academic Interactions

11. Cafe Conversations: Embracing Vulnerability in Society and Education

Index